Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 355

Who will take over the Dennis Hopper roles?

The other day I had lunch with my old friends Michel and Bernard-Henri (not French, just snobs). We were discussing Amigo, the movie set in the Philippine-American War, written, edited, produced and directed by John Sayles. I saw an early cut months ago and the finished version last week. - After seeing it again I [...]

Happy Birthday, Tom Waits!

So our readers want beefcake. So they don't get why we love you. So they find your looks and your drunken bear who escaped from the circus voice weird. We don't care. We get you, and you get us. Don't ever stop singing. This is the song whose title I ripped off for my newspaper [...]

Now do you get that there's life outside basketball?

Photo from the Filipino Football blog. Philippines humbles defending champ Vietnam in Suzuki Cup By Jojo Malig, abs-cbnNEWS.com Posted at 12/05/2010 11:10 PM | Updated as of 12/06/2010 7:33 AM MANILA, Philippines – Deadly finishing and no-nonsense defending saw the Philippine national football team humble reigning champion Vietnam, 2-0, in their ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki [...]

The Weekly LitWit Challenge 4.1: An extraterrestrial lands in Manila

Welcome to the fourth series of the Weekly LitWit Challenge, a literary competition that tests your writing skills, your powers of invention under duress, your sense of absurdity, and your self-esteem. And your ability to "read" the Yucch-meter's mind, because the criteria for judging are arbitrary and more than slightly influenced by the Yucch-meter's serotonin/endorphin [...]

Eep, you missed Free Comic Book Day.

Serves you right for not visiting National Bookstore at Power Plant Rockwell regularly. We were wandering around the mall when we saw this crowd in front of National Bookstore. ("Ano yan, may artista ba?" "Artista na nagbabasa ng libro?! Kailangang kodakan!") Turns out it was Free Comic Book Day at the bookstore. These were the [...]

Tom Waits Week, day 5: Lickety-splitly

I remember buying my CD of Closing Time ten years ago in Toronto during the film festival. I was alone, it was cold, I'd had too much coffee and seen too many movies and I still had to make my way to New York later that week. Between screenings I stepped into one of those [...]

LitWit Challenge 3.12: The Yucch-meter listens in on your conversations. And announces a winner.

The Glass Family stories with rubber duckies The Yucch-meter hunkered down with a pot of coffee to read your entries to LitWit Challenge 3.12: Conversations in restaurants. It stands to reason that writing a conversation in a restaurant is an easy task since everyone at one time or another has had a conversation in a [...]

Tom Waits Week, day 4: Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did

If you listen to Tom Waits when you are miserable you feel better because you can't possibly be as miserable as he is. If you listen to Tom Waits when you are happy you also feel better because hot damn, that's a blues singer.

Meet and greet with Jon on Saturday the 11th

Jonny will be awake for the meet-and-greet, we promise. We're planning a meet-and-greet with our straight guy columnist Jon Morales of the national men's rugby team on Saturday, 11 December, 7-9 pm at La Cuisine in Salcedo Village, Makati. It's the craziest time of the year and everyone has a party to attend, but what [...]

On Sunday, treat your eyes to brunch.

The Pinto Art Museum in Antipolo opens on December 5 at 10am. Take a short break from the holiday frenzy. Go! How to get there: